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<\/p>\nWhen my daughter was born, I wanted to do something every month to document her growth. I came up completely blank, though. When she turned 1 month old, I grabbed this onesie my mom had bought and laid her on a blanket with a camera. It hit me then that I should just reuse that onesie and camera every month, to show how much she has grown. Month two came around and I threw in another camera, and it grew from there!<\/p>\n
What I never expected, though, was that Claire would be so petite, and that at a year old, the 0-3 month one still fit. We were only able to get one snap to close at the bottom, but otherwise it fit her all the way through!<\/p>\n
And to answer the camera questions I’ve been asked along the way
\n-I find cameras at thrift shops, antique shops, eBay, Etsy, and through friends and family.-The Pentax that started the series I bought after returning home from a photography workshop in Mexico several years ago, where I met the incredibly talented and inspiring Jose Villa
\n-The Canon that made it’s appearance in month 10 was the first SLR camera I every shot with. It was given to my dad a long time ago, and as a child and teenager, I would shoot around. I didn’t know what aperture, shutter speed, and ISO were, but I knew that if I changed one thing or another, it would give me a totally different look. I especially loved playing with the shutter speed and light-writing, long before I ever knew that was a “thing”!
\n-Yes, I own all of these cameras, and yes, I have many, many more, too! Come to my studio to see my collection!<\/p>\n
And to my beautiful baby girl: You loved these shoots, until about 8 months old, which was shortly after you started crawling. Even though you hated being laid down and wanted to run away for every shot after, I thank you for at least giving me one image to work with each month! I love seeing you grow and am amazed by your brilliance and spunk. I love you!<\/p>\n
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When my daughter was born, I wanted to do something every month to document her growth. I came up completely blank, though. When she turned 1 month old, I grabbed this onesie my mom had bought and laid her on a blanket with a camera. It hit me then that I should just reuse that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-new-life-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3040,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions\/3040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}